Servant, Sacrifice, Shepherd, Leader: The Theology of Leadership
Interview for Book
Dr Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie & Rev. Pdn Dr Peter Danilchick
Theme: Leadership must be rooting in our faith
Based off: St Gregory the Theology St John Chrystostom St Gregory the Great The Prophets and Gospels modern saints
Leadership in Byzantium
Dr Alex discussed leadership in Byzantine emperor.
St Justinian I Wrote good things but didn’t implement them in practice.
Overstepped bounds of leadership
Deacon embody service priests live out sacrifice Bishops model shepherding
over all is obedience to God
Fr Hopko, what matters is what’s in your heart when you forget everything in your head.
Everything we do should be to live out the will of God
Moses and Jeremiah
Moses starts with compassion; “He went out to his people and looked on their burden”
Jeremiah kept preaching God’s word thru all his experience. He carried within himself the sorrow God for his people.
Christ in the desert and the sermon the mount
Christ only a pattern but the power to overcome temptation
Stones -> bread, about proving oneself
jumping from temple, about spectacle
But we can flip it around in lazyness and do nothing “God will provide”
3rd and worst: lure of power, riches, and glory
Beattitutes: Radical mercy: Blessed as are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
References
Dates
2025-10-11
(2025-W41-6)
2025-W41
2025-10